Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-22
TEXAS IN TYPE.
Clippings from State Exchanges on Matters
of Interest

Clippings from State Exchanges on Matters
of Interest.
Real estate IN Terrell is advancing in
value.
A cotton compress in GreenyilIe is said
to be necessity.
The wire worms are eating the young
corn on Walnut creek.
There is said to be great demand for
residences in Wolfe City.
Many calves are dying in the section
around Dawson OF blind staggers.
More grain will be raised in Robertson
county this year than for many years past.
Some of the horses of Wallgce's prairie,
Grimes county, are afflicted with glarders.
Since the beginning of the cotton sea
son GreenvilIe has received Fl 900 bales.
A brick yard has been started at Mount
Pleansant to burn the brick for the new
Jail.
In Medina county corn and oats are
doing well, but in some places the cattle
are dying.
The Greenville National Bank is now
ready for business with paid-up capital
of 100000.
The farmers of Shackelford county are
wishing for rain to bring forward their
spring crop.
The citizens OF Terrell are doing COM
mendable work in setting out shade trees
on the streets.
Some Of the gardens in CIeOurne have
peas six inches high and corn large
enough TO plow.
The Civ Council of Greenyille lave let
the contract for WatcrWOTHs to M. z. KEEL
Iy & Co. for S75 900.
Mrs Venrifoy of Hill county has pro
life SOW, 1t being the mother of litter
of eighteen pigs.
The machinery of the Alvarado roller
mill and elevator will be started on
Wednesday, the 23d,
A part of the front wall OF the brick
church in Marienfeld fell on Friday last.
No one was injured.
Shackelford county holds out induce
menss to land purchasers by offering rich
lands at low prices.
Up to last Friday 10, 066 bales of cotton
had been shipped from Waxahachie dur
ing the season Just closed.
A Baptist church is to be erected on
the Johns n county school land three
miles southwest from Bruce pOstotfice.
The County Judge of Martin county
ordered last week from Dallas 10, 900
pounds of -four for the relief of the des
titute.
The Sisters of Divine Providence have
organized st. Joseph's convent and st.
Mary's hospital at Marienfeld Martin
county.
Hunt county has over $4,000, 900 worth
of taxable property, according to the as
SCISSORS rolls, ana more than 10000 III
habitants.
The drouth sufferers fund was aug
mented last week by contribution Of |
S75 worth of seed corn from the citizens |
of Jefferson.
L. A. King, charged with murder in
Wood county, mas been pronounced insane |
by jury of Smith county, and will be |
sent to the asylum.
The Sherman Register says that the
new buildings in course OF erection and |
Just completed in Sherman in valuation !
Willreach 100000.
The stock in LamDasas county have |
passed through the winter with but little |
loss, and are doing well. The Landing |
season has opened auspiciously.
A new town, for the present called
B -addy, is springlng up on the St. Louis,
Arkansas & Texas railroad between Com
merce and Wolfe City in Hunt county.
Suit has been brought in Sherman
against the Houston and Texas Central
Railway involving the right to $4,000 |
acres of land in Potter and Oldham COun
ties.
Plans are being perfected for the cree
ton in Paris of a mammoth ice factory, |
and bottling wOrKs. The
is to have the establishment in
operation by the 1st of June.
subscription is being circulated in
Alvarado to raise a fund to bore an
artesian we'll to the depth of 1000 feet if
necessary, in order 10 ascertain if a flow
Of water can be obtained east OF the
cross timbers.